Greetings Terrarians!

The latest in our series of updates to Terraria has officially gone live to everyone this morning! As with all past updates, this new content is absolutely free to everyone that owns Terraria on PC/Mac/Linux.

Check out the Changelog below for a taste of what now awaits within and beneath the swirling sands....

http://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/pc-1-3-3-changelog.48916/

(Spoiler Warning, of course, if you would rather discover things on your own)

Features:

• A new weather event has been added, sandstorms! With it come new enemies, new loot, a new soundtrack, and a unique experience in the desert biome!
  
• Blizzards now have a new visual effect
  
• Deserts and the Underworld now have a heat distortion visual effect.
  
• Dripping sand effects can be found in the desert, and placed anywhere by the player with the Magic Sand Dropper!
  

• Added the Forbidden Armor Set
  
• Added Ancient Horn (Basilisk Mount)
  
• Added Onyx Blaster
  
• Added Sky Fracture
  
• Added Mandible Blade
  
• Added Spirit Flame
  
• Added Pocket Mirror
  
• Added Djinn's Curse
  
• Added Lamia Vanity Set
  
• Added the Ancient Vanity Set
  
• Added Desert Spirit Lamp
  
• Added Magic Sand Dropper
  
• Added Sandstorm Music Box!
  
• And several new banners!
  

• Sand Poachers now inflict the Venom debuff
  
• Dune Splicers now have more HP and Defense
  
• Dune Splicers and Tomb Crawlers may be more aggressive, especially during Sandstorms.
  
• Added a new block mining visual effect
  
• Added multiplayer performance improvements
  
• Upped spawn rates in underground desert
  

• Fixed sliders in the gamepad settings not being "locked on" when dragged around
  
• Fixed certain textures loading wrong at random, and producing weird artifacts
  
• Fixed underground desert worms being too rare
  
• Fixed Portal Gun secondary fire conflicting with Grappling Hooks on Gamepad
  
• Fixed a number of exploits
  
• Fixed rain, water, and lava sounds persisting when the game window is inactive
  
• Fixed drills shooting confetti at supersonic speeds when under the effects of Flask of Party